Domain Name Address Resolution Process. Whether youre accessing a website or sending e-mail your computer uses a DNS server to look up the domain name youre trying to access. The program most likely will know.
Else forward to recursive DNS Local DNS server will contact other DNS servers on behalf of the requesting client. At this point the resolver goes through a process called recursion to convert the domain name into an IP address. The proper term for this process is DNS name resolution and you would say that the DNS server resolves the domain name to the IP address.
Hierarchy of Name Servers.
On almost all operating systems whether they be Apple Linux Unix Netware or Windows the. The will resolve the domain name. The client proposes a domain name resolution request and sends the request to the local domain name server. Host name resolution to resolve fully qualified domain names FQDNs into IP addresses.